# nasus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nāsus (“the nose; the nozzle or spout”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈneɪ.zəs/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈneɪ.səs/
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -eɪzəs, (General American) -eɪsəs

### Noun

nasus (plural nasi)
* (entomology) A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
* (entomology) A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.

#### Derived terms

* nasute (adjective)

#### Related terms

* nasus externus

### References

* “nasus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “nasus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* SANUs, Ansus, unass, sauns, SUSAN, Susan, Nauss, NUSAS

## Latin

Picture dictionary :
nasus
calvāria
cerebrum
oculus
labium
nāsus
ōs
mentum
māxilla
auris
tempus
collum :

### Alternative forms

* nāsum (pre-Classical)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nāssos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnaː.sus/, [ˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈna.sus/, [ˈnäːs̬us]

### Noun

nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension
* (anatomy) The nose.
** c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmen 13 11-14:nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae, donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque, quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis, totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.for I will give you perfume, which to my girl Venuses and Cupids have given, which when you smell it, you will ask the gods, to make you, Fabullus, all nose
    Synonym: nāris
** The sense of smell.
* (by extension) The projecting part of a vessel; the spout or nozzle.

#### Inflection

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* nāsālis
* Nāsīca
* nāsīca
* Nasō
* nassiterna
* nāsūtē
* nāsūtus

#### Related terms

* nāris

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Istro-Romanian: nås
** Megleno-Romanian: nas
** Romanian: nas
* Dalmatian:
** nuos
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: nasu
** Italian: naso
** Neapolitan: naso
** Sicilian: nasu
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: nasu
* North Italian:
** Venetan: naxo
** Gallo-Italian:
*** Ligurian: naso
*** Piedmontese: nas
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: nâs
** Ladin: nès
** Romansch: nas
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: nâs
** Oïl:
*** French: nez, naseau
*** Walloon: nez
** Oc:
*** Catalan: nas
*** Occitan: nas
* Ibero-Romance:
** Spanish: naso
* → English: nasus

### References

* “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* nasus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* nasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “nasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “nasus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nāris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 400